Track-gage.



W. R. &`J. T. PAYNE.

TRACK GAGE.

APPLICATION P11111) 11.13.19, 1910. RBNBWBD SEPT. 24, 1912.

11,059,388. Patented Apr. 22, 1913.

Zing/2f 1 UNITED srnrEs EETENE oEEioE.

TRACK-GAGE.

i Specification of :Letters Patent.

Patent-eanpaaaueis.;

Application led IFebruary;19 1910Seria1 No.`544,825.` RenewedSeptember`r24, 1912.i, SerialiNo. 722,124.1

T0 all whom et `may `concern Be it known that we, WVILLIAM:` R. .PAYNEyand J oHN T. PAYNE,1citizens of: the United States, residinggat Scarbro,in the county of Fayette, State of Vest Virginia, have in 4vented a newand useful `Tr`ackGage,f of which the following is aspeciication. 1,

It is the object `ot' the present inventionzto provide an improved`construct-ion of track gagesuch as employed inadjustingirailwayj tracksto the proper `width and levelupony both the straight and the,curvediportions ol` the track. In such devices, it `is `customaryto`provide a gage or indicator, the `dial of` which is marked .oI indegrees,` the purpose1 of this gage being to indicate the relative eleivation of the rails on curves.` The workmen who usuallyhandle such`gagesnd it idiflii cult, however, toreadily read; such `a gagei andfurther find `the `degree marks thei'eoni to be more or less difficultztoremploy in calf culating said relative elevation; Inasmuchi `as oncurves, the outer rail will have an Lelevation varyingafrom afractioniof` aniinch tot possibly several inches, the present invenftion aims to so construct the gage that the reading `taken `therefromwill lbe ininches and fractions of inches instead of in `degrees.l

Also, while the rails on a straight stretehfof` track will be spacedapart four feet, eight and one half inches, on` the curves, this dis-`tance between the rails `will beincreased, in some places, as much asaninch! To ascertain whether or `not theirails are properly spaced at acurve, `the ordinary gages include a memberor element adapted to fill inthe space which would otherwise occur between one of the rail engagingshoulders and the side of the tread of itherail.` In `the presentinvention, however, it is contemplated that means be providedfor 1notonly readily Vdetermining `whether' or. not-the rails have the proper:relative elevationabut also whether or not they are correctly `spacedand this means is so constructedfthat no calculation willl be `requiredon theipart ofthe user i gage from place `toplace and also for suptportingthe same `while in actual use. Aret cess7 is `formed inl thefront face of t-he 1 stockat a;point `midwaybetween the lends thereofandnpon` the :bottom wall: of` this recess fare painted or otherwiseidepicted scale marks, and a pointer` 8 is `mounted within -:the; recess`and `coperates with: the said scale marks to indicate when the stock islevel. Asubstantially semi-circular plate 9 is secured over the1ecessand partly closes the same, and this plate servesto protect theweighted "end` of the pointer and `also the i i pivot for` the saidpointer.

1 Uponits under edge, adjacent :eachend,l

the stockis provided with a shoulder which? c is indicated by the`numeral l0 `and `these shoulders are so spaced that when the device is disposedupon` the rails of a straight `line of track, the saidshoulderswill abut against facesofthe shoulders are spaced apart fourfeet, eight and` one ,half inches, `as before properly spaced, there iis provided, at lone end Ofithe stock, a stepped` blade. This blade is`indicated by the numeral l1 andis mounted for` vertical slidingadjustment; in

suitable guides 12 upon `the front face of the said stock.`

`the inner `or opposed sides ofthe treads? of the rail`s\ Iniotherwords, the railfcngagingi t A set screw 13 is threaded intoithe stock`and theihead of thescrew is arranged to project over and bear againstone edgeiofi `the blade :and tohold lthe same at adjust- It `willbeobserved that the blade is` ment.

be `observed that the lower edge of the lower one; of the guides 12 iscoincident with the lower `edge of'thestockland serves` as an indicatorfor coneration with thescale marks ,i

onthe `said blade. It iwill also be observed that oneiedge of the bladeabuts against the rail-engaging; edge of.1 that shoulderi 10` which `islocated at the same `end ofthe` stock as :is `the said blade.` The lower:per-` tion of the blade is cutsaway in asteplped Inannerso as to aiordshoulders-15 designed to engage with the tread of onel of the trackrails',y andalso to form rail-engaging heads 16 adjacent to theshoulders and at right angles thereto and arranged to enp`andthegshoulder `at the other end :of Vthe `stock bearing Aagainst theother rail. rails constitute a part of` a straightv line of track, lthevshoulders-will both vabut against tlieirails 4and the pointer'S shouldindicate the zero niark of the dial in-.frontof which.

it is mounted. If the-device lis disposed upon the rails of a curvedsection: of the track,however, the device is similarly disposed upon therails except that the blade 1l is so adjusted that one or ithe other ofits several rail-engaging heads -lwill bear against the side of the railhead, It is well .known that the distance between the rai-ls on a curvedsectlon of track increases in.

l ratio tothe increase in `elevation of the outer rail above the innerrail Iso that it will as a consequence be readily understood that'should. the `blade be so-adjuste'd that its properedge 16 will bebroughtk intoengagement with thel rail, the lower edge ofy the.

llower one of the guides 12 should be in `rfegistration withthat one `ofscalevr'narks 14- Vindicating 1the properel'evati'on of the 'raill Ifythe i in consideration ,of its yproper spaced relai tion with respectto theothel rail. In other words, if the rail is properly spaced andelev vated,[bo`tl1'oiv these conditionswillbe in- 40 dicated by .theblade 11 'and 'variations or,r discrepancies may be readily ascertainedand f rectified.

What is', claimed is f I In a device of the class describedya havingaiXed rail =engiftgfgiiiLgfshouldi*fneark one end, a blade mounted forvertical ad-j justnient near the otherfend of the stock and having va`plurality of relatively vertically offset rail engaging shoulders, thesaid shoulders being lofcate'dat.that'side of the blade opposite theside whichlis presented toward the iiXed vshoulder fandtlresaid.`shoulders being. successively spaced *from the fixed shoulder atgreater'distancesyfroni 'the 55 lowerinost to the uppermost shoulder,said blade `havinga scale on one face, indicating Ineans ycolgieratingwiththe scaleupon the, j l blade and level=indica`ting means upon 'the YGol stock. Y c

In testimony that ywe claim thefforegoing; as our own, we have heretoaffixed oursifgnatures in the presence of two wlllitn'essesff WILLIAMIt. '-1PAYi\IIi}-.l

i milf( Y 1 f JOHN T. PAYNE. l

Witnesses: l n 'f JAMES BCKNER, f n c WILLIAM L-LI-IANGER. i, f lWitnesses as toenuark of Williarn R. Payne:

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